That Noble Dream

That Noble Dream
Author: Peter Novick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1988-09-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 110726829X

The aspiration to relate the past 'as it really happened' has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this remarkable history of the profession, Peter Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the last century. Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writings of hundreds of American historians from J. Franklin Jameson and Charles Beard to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Eugene Genovese, That Noble Dream is a richly textured account of what American historians have thought they were doing, or ought to be doing, when they wrote history - how their principles influenced their practice and practical exigencies influenced their principles.

That Noble Dream

That Noble Dream
Author: Peter Novick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1988-09-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521357456

The evolution of the "idea" and "ideal" of objectivity is traced over the past century from a selection of unpublished as well as published writings of hundreds of American historians.

That Noble Dream

That Noble Dream
Author: Peter Novick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1988-09-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521343282

The aspiration to relate the past 'as it really happened' has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this remarkable history of the profession, Peter Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the last century. Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writings of hundreds of American historians from J. Franklin Jameson and Charles Beard to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Eugene Genovese, That Noble Dream is a richly textured account of what American historians have thought they were doing, or ought to be doing, when they wrote history - how their principles influenced their practice and practical exigencies influenced their principles.

On the Teaching and Writing of History

On the Teaching and Writing of History
Author: Bernard Bailyn
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1994
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9780874517200

Bailyn, a professor at Harvard and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, writes of the impossibility of teaching history without bias, and that history itself is constantly open to new interpretations and viewpoints.

Charles Austin Beard

Charles Austin Beard
Author: Richard Drake
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2018-12-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501715143

Richard Drake presents a new interpretation of Charles Austin Beard's life and work. The foremost American historian and a leading public intellectual in the first half of the twentieth century, Beard participated actively in the debates about American politics and foreign policy surrounding the two world wars. In a radical change of critical focus, Charles Austin Beard places the European dimension of Beard's thought at the center, correcting previous biographers' oversights and presenting a far more nuanced appreciation for Beard's life. Drake analyzes the stages of Beard's development as a historian and critic: his role as an intellectual leader in the Progressive movement, the support that he gave to the cause of American intervention in World War I, and his subsequent revisionist repudiation of Wilsonian ideals and embrace of non-interventionism in the lead-up to World War II. Charles Austin Beard shows that, as Americans tally the ruinous costs—both financial and moral—of nation-building and informal empire, the life and work of this prophet of history merit a thorough reexamination.

A Book of Dreams

A Book of Dreams
Author: Peter Reich
Publisher: Peter Reich
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2011-02-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1458179281

A Companion to Western Historical Thought

A Companion to Western Historical Thought
Author: Lloyd Kramer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0585470936

This broad survey introduces readers to the major themes, figures,traditions and theories in Western historical thought, tracing itsevolution from biblical times to the present. Surveys the evolution of historical thought in the WesternWorld from biblical times to the present day. Provides students with the background to contemporaryhistorical debates and approaches. Serves as a useful reference for researchers andteachers. Includes chapters by 24 leading historians.

The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of

The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of
Author: Stephen Hawking
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Total Pages: 1090
Release: 2011-10-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 076244374X

"God does not play dice with the universe." So said Albert Einstein in response to the first discoveries that launched quantum physics, as they suggested a random universe that seemed to violate the laws of common sense. This 20th-century scientific revolution completely shattered Newtonian laws, inciting a crisis of thought that challenged scientists to think differently about matter and subatomic particles.The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of compiles the essential works from the scientists who sparked the paradigm shift that changed the face of physics forever, pushing our understanding of the universe on to an entirely new level of comprehension. Gathered in this anthology is the scholarship that shocked and befuddled the scientific world, including works by Niels Bohr, Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, Erwin Schrodinger, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman, as well as an introduction by today's most celebrated scientist, Stephen Hawking.

Alphabet of Dreams

Alphabet of Dreams
Author: Susan Fletcher
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2006-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0689850425

Mitra and her brother Babak are exiled royals living on the streets as orphaned beggars. Babak possesses a strange gift of being able to know someone's dreams, and soon they find themselves on the road to Bethlehem in this biblical epic.

The Resistance Versus Vichy

The Resistance Versus Vichy
Author: Peter Novick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1968
Genre: Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN:

"Vichy France, officially the French State (État français), was France during the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain, during World War II, from the German victory in the Battle of France (July 1940) to the Allied liberation in August 1944. Following the defeat in June 1940, President Albert Lebrun appointed Marshal Pétain as Premier of France. After making peace with Germany, Pétain and his government voted to reorganize the discredited Third Republic into an authoritarian regime."--Wikipedia.